title: Coronary bypass: the first 10 years.
abstract: First by the hundreds, then by the thousands, until today 100,000 coronary bypass procedures are performed in the United States every year! For those patients for whom medical management alone is inadequate, bypass surgery, which has been developed and refined over the years, has proved to be a means not only of prolonging life but, perhaps just as important, of enhancing the quality of that life.
mesh_terms: D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000639:trends